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Re: assembler man pages ?
Eric Christopher writes:
>
> On Sep 1, 2005, at 6:29 PM, Mike Frysinger wrote:
>
> > i'm wondering if a set of man pages exist for assembly instructions
> > akin to
> > the man-pages package for the C library ...
> >
> > ive looked through the binutils info/texi files and they cover a
> > lot of
> > binutils-related stuff, but nothing in terms of a language
> > reference ...
> >
> > for example, say i wanted quick info on the 'jne' instruction, i
> > would do `man
> > jne` and get back a reference page similar to `man 2 close`
>
> Nope. For this it's best to use the processor manual from the vendor.
I agree the best choice is the vendor's manual.
For cgen ports there is the cgen-generated html manual though.
Kinda handy sometimes (well, I like it anyway :-)).
One could certainly write a generator for man pages if one wanted to.
And was suffering from insomnia!